Well, here we are seven years later and we're back to square one.
Who could have predicted this? Well, just about everyone on this forum that didn't have their nose firmly implanted.
At least we got to add millions if not billions to the national debt to pay for it.
Have ink, willing to print...
Actually, it does work now. Ajo I station is up and running and the Border Patrol Agents like its performance.
The SBInet towers have an enhanced capability over the much smaller, and less capable, MSS trucks. The multi-spectral detection capabilities are significant and light-years ahead of the older, lass capable (and limited IR-only) MSS tucks.
My son works Ajo as a Border Patrol Agent and he and his brother Agents like working together with the towers. They think it a mistake to cancel now that the technology is fixed and operational. They see this as a calculated ploy on the part of Big Sis Nappy-Pants and The Messiah to cook the illegal immigration books. You know, less detections mean less coordinated interceptions and reduced illegal captures. When the numbers are down this means Big Sis Nappy-Pants and The Messiah are doing good. . .right? That their illegal immigration coddling-Mexico mmigration policy works because the number of apps is way down.
The decision to cancel has nothing to do with capability, it has everything to do with politics.
Good post D1.
Obama doesn't want to secure the border, but then neither did GWB. I don't object to trying out new ideas, but (even assuming that he and Chertoff sincerely thought it was a good idea) GWB could have deployed a lot more national guard troops on the border while they were evaluating the so-called "virtual fence."